Modesto Needle Exchange Busted!

Use examples of places like SF (call the activists there to find out how)

Last Sept. ('08) the board of supervisors voted a 4-0 vote against it.
Fresno took 13 yrs. to get 'legalized'.
Modesto cant afford to wait that long.

Thanx for posting though....

This is already underway - I am compiling evidence and will make an effective presentation to get this to the point that it needs to be. We have several influential figures in the community that will be on board with this.

It will not happen overnight, but it will not take years either.

Robert - you wrote on your blog you wanted to see the Needle Exchange shut down because it was "illegal." Now you appear to be in favor of it. Being that you live in the airport district, it seems strange that when you started coming out the exchange, the police where also there and made the bust.

If you're not someone who rats to the police then you should probably make it clear to everyone that you did not call the police on the needle exchange like you said in your blog you were going to do.

I am the neighborhood watch street captain for the Modesto Airport District, among other things that involve partnerships with law enforcement. I think you call these things "rat" or "snitch" if I am not mistaken.

I am not for the needle giveaway that was performed in the Airport District and other places.

I am for a regulated legal needle exchange, sanctioned by local government.

http://thehive.modbee.com/node/13479

Visit the above link and this among other threads that I have posted will show you what I think of the needle GIVEAWAY in the park.

While you are there you could search for other threads in which I promote LEGAL needle exchange.

Robert Stanford, you can get fucked. The city of Modesto has made it clear that they do not care about these "junkies." The health risks of using dirty needles is obvious, yet politicians (And you support them, so you are just as guilty) continue to take a bullshit moral stance against drug use that is all too similar to the way Christians have continued to try and set up sex education in public schools. Instead of, you know, realizing that there are material conditions for this drug use (shit doesn't happen in a vacuum, you maroon) and taking measures to keep users and the rest of us safe from disease like HIV and Hep C (and addressing these material conditions like any sane person would). Now when members of the community decide that its time for people to take control of their own lives, you fucking call the cops. The Modesto Needle Exchange is one of the best projects to happen in Modesto. Not only does it keep users safe, but it gives them an incentive to keep their dirty needles instead of throwing them on the ground where children or pets can come in contact with them.

You are the worst kind of person. All opinions and no brain.

P.S. Your "blogs" are fucking horrible. Were you never taught how to write proper English?

Yes - that's right - get it all out.

This was not an exchange - you put individuals further at risk.

Besides - it is not the city - it is the County - the county needs to implement a proper needle exchange. You know, one in which dirty needles are collected.

Go ahead give out clean needles - wonderful. Where do they end up????

This was most certainly an exchange, seeing as people coming back would bring dirty needles that were COLLECTED in orange HAZARD bins and in EXCHANGE they were given clean needles. You fucking moron, do you always make shit up? And you can't claim ignorance, because I know you were present one of the days the Needle Exchange was in Mono Park.

Since Rob is working with the police in shutting down the needle exchange program, I think indybay should delete all his posts in principle.

His dialog on this site isn't welcome and he is just using this board to get more information from people that he can use in the future in conjunction with the police.

I would also encourage other people not to dialog with Rob at all, even on this site. Any info that he gets he'll gie to the state.

While I agree that there is value in liberals working within the law alongside radicals taking a more direct approach, when people like Stanford fuck over those who are not bound by bourgeois Anglo laws, well, there's a definite problem.
Of course Stanford seems more like a conservative and I'm really not sure what he's doing on indymedia to begin with...other than picking up info to give to pigs and politicos.

All the people I know that use syringes for drug use put their needles in "sharps-tainers" made by medical action industries...b/c regardless of what some people think, not all those that do drugs lack the ability to think.